I didn't know they broke Cocoa-Java under Leopard until installing XCode. Which is why I was going to try XCode. Too bad. Interface Builder is fun. You can still edit the Safari NIB files.

i have some simple java apps to write but xcode builds it to a jar file. what i'd like is for xcode to just compile each .java file into .class file in the directory. i'd like to also run the ...

With Multi-OS Engine (MOE) technology preview from Intel, you can run Java code on iOS while still using all the UI elements you would have access to with Xcode.